Bedömt

Bedömt is the past participle of the Swedish verb bedöma, meaning to assess, judge, or evaluate. It denotes that something has undergone assessment or has been considered in a judgment or evaluation process. In formal and administrative language, bedömt appears as the participial form used in compound tenses and evaluative phrases, signaling that an evaluation has taken place.

Grammar and usage notes: Bedöma is a Germanic verb, and bedömt is its participial form. In everyday Swedish, the more common attributive adjective form is bedömd, which describes something that has been evaluated. Bedömt appears most clearly in contexts describing completed assessment or in fixed expressions tied to evaluation, often within official or analytic writing. The related noun bedömning refers to the act of evaluating or the result of an assessment, while bedömare denotes the assessor or evaluator.

Etymology: The verb bedöma derives from the prefix be- added to döma (to judge), with roots in the Germanic language family. The word has cognates in other Scandinavian languages, such as Norwegian bedømme and Danish bedømme, reflecting shared Germanic origins and similar meanings.

Related terms: bedömning (assessment), bedömare (assessor), bedömningskriterier (assessment criteria), and utvärdera (to evaluate, to appraise). In Swedish discourse, bedömt and bedömda forms commonly appear alongside these terms in analyses, judgments, and official reports.

See also: bedömning, bedöma, utvärdera, bedömd, bedömts.